you have to read the previous post "is it friday already" for this to have full impact... so go do that.
now, isn't school #2 so cool? i swear that thirty seconds after posting that my co-teacher from school #2 called. i shouldn't have answered. keep in mind it's 8PM here... turns out that the principal decided today that i should actually go to school and sit around and do nothing all day!!! WTF??!?!?! my co-teacher told him there is nothing for me to do, that the computer doesn't even work, and that i'd already been told not to come in, but NO, he insisted that i have to be there. so i told her that i'm taking a sick day - which is no lie, i am sick... and that i'm going to the doctor tomorrow... which i was planning on doing anyway... along with going to the bank etc...
i told her to make sure that i don't have to go in next week when everyone else in the entire school will be away on a field trip... since that's when i'm supposed to be going to japan. fuckers. i'm so pissed.
this is one of the biggest problems with foreign teachers in korean public schools - they don't understand that a little bit of leeway with the foreign teachers goes a long way. that we don't have the same work load as the koreans and spend half of our day sitting around doing nothing to begin with... so why not let us enjoy korea a little more and give us that time off? it wouldn't bother me so much if there weren't so much disparity in the system... like i said at winter vacation about people going to thailand for a month or more... and i was at school every day. anyway... i digress...
co-teacher just called back and said that it's ok for me to "take a rest" tomorrow. she also asked about next week and he said that if i wanted to go to school that i could, but if i didn't want to then i didn't have to. what does that mean? is it some kind of passive aggressive attempt to get me to go sit there all day? when she said goodbye, she told me to have a nice trip... i mean it's pretty obvious, isn't it? sit around with nothing to do? or go to japan? let me see... ...
now, isn't school #2 so cool? i swear that thirty seconds after posting that my co-teacher from school #2 called. i shouldn't have answered. keep in mind it's 8PM here... turns out that the principal decided today that i should actually go to school and sit around and do nothing all day!!! WTF??!?!?! my co-teacher told him there is nothing for me to do, that the computer doesn't even work, and that i'd already been told not to come in, but NO, he insisted that i have to be there. so i told her that i'm taking a sick day - which is no lie, i am sick... and that i'm going to the doctor tomorrow... which i was planning on doing anyway... along with going to the bank etc...
i told her to make sure that i don't have to go in next week when everyone else in the entire school will be away on a field trip... since that's when i'm supposed to be going to japan. fuckers. i'm so pissed.
this is one of the biggest problems with foreign teachers in korean public schools - they don't understand that a little bit of leeway with the foreign teachers goes a long way. that we don't have the same work load as the koreans and spend half of our day sitting around doing nothing to begin with... so why not let us enjoy korea a little more and give us that time off? it wouldn't bother me so much if there weren't so much disparity in the system... like i said at winter vacation about people going to thailand for a month or more... and i was at school every day. anyway... i digress...
co-teacher just called back and said that it's ok for me to "take a rest" tomorrow. she also asked about next week and he said that if i wanted to go to school that i could, but if i didn't want to then i didn't have to. what does that mean? is it some kind of passive aggressive attempt to get me to go sit there all day? when she said goodbye, she told me to have a nice trip... i mean it's pretty obvious, isn't it? sit around with nothing to do? or go to japan? let me see... ...
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hahaha..."take a rest"..you know they learn that in elementary school? everyone kept on saying that to me and i was like WHAT IS THAT? and then they showed me their english books and it says that! haha. anyway, i hope you feel better and have a good vacation~
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